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[Anonymous No.12585401]

I have a theory about why Judge Holden is an albino in the novel Meridian of Blood written by Cormac McCarthy in 1985. He is a person with greater knowledge than all those around him, the color of his skin is a representation that he is not from the West, not in his culture, not in his principles, as in Django (1966) the protagonist mentions that not only is the skin brown by birth, but the sun darkens it, the judge is not part of any experience that humanizes the cowboy. What makes the heroes of the Old West even more morally neutral, they remain heroes, as in The Dolar Trilogy or Once Upon a Time in the West.

I can't help but make comparisons with Julio Popper, a Romanian engineer who was one of those responsible for the Selknam massacre in Patagonia in 1885. He is an educated person, but traveling to another system and recognizing death and genocide as something conceivable dehumanizes him, independent of his intelligence and erudition.

[Anonymous No.12585413]

It's because he's a fucking white male

[Anonymous No.12585482]

He is an emanation of the whale

[Anonymous No.12585890]

>>12585401
It could just be that being albino and hairless means he can not be tied down to a race/culture, he is apart from everyone and we get nothing to tie him to the baggage of a cultural history outside of what we are given in the book. We are forced to take him as presented.